On Mon, 4 Sep 2006 19:13:48 +1000 David Seikel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:

> On Mon, 4 Sep 2006 06:25:21 +0200 Anders Troback
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > I tell a program to remember it's virtual desktop and position.
> > When I start the program from an other desktop or from startup/.order
> > the program starts on the desired desktop but the position are wrong.
> > It always starts in the upper left corner!
> > 
> > And now the program has a new position in memory and will start in the
> > corner every time until I move it to a new position!
> 
> Further to that, if you are on the virtual desktop that it is
> remembered as being on, then you get you remembered settings for that
> window.  Not all windows get moved to their remembered virtual desktop
> either, but again, if you are on the correct desktop, then the settings
> kick in.  It's not just the position that is wrong either.

interesting. this didnt used to happen. it used to work... hrrrm.

> I think we really need an advanced dialog that shows all the remembered
> settings for all the windows it has remembered, like E16 has (or had,
> it's been a while since I used E16).  Then at least us developers have
> some idea what is really going on and can help sort out the "that app
> isn't easily tracked" from the "E is buggy" issues.
> 
> I know it's a hard job for E to track windows coz not all apps
> cooperate.  Its a hard job for users to know wtf is going wrong with
> remember settings when there are no tools to help find out whet E is
> trying to do and what the apps are doing to stuff E up.  raster, I
> think you mentioned to me in the past that E tracks changes to things
> like window class and title, this advanced dialog should show all
> information that E is using.  In combination with the windows
> properties dialog, we at least will have some hope of figuring out what
> is going on.
> 
> At the moment its like shooting in the dark everytime the remember
> behaviour changes and our windows don't remember properly.  Wiping the
> config and trying random settings again is no fun.
> 


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